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Updated: May 14, 2025
But Brisket, even though he did not see his way, was open to female seduction. Why was it, that at this eventful period of Robinson's existence Mrs. Poppins should have turned against him? Why his old friend, Polly Twizzle, should have gone over to his rival, Robinson never knew.
"It seemed to me that, compared with the prices others have asked, Mr. Robinson's offer was very reasonable." "It may be lower than Jacobs and Wilter, but that don't make it right." "Well, there were the Two Sevens" he meant the Seventy-Seven, but that was a mere detail "I didn't get to see the owner, you know. I have written East, however, and should hear from him in a few days."
At one and the same moment the pistol exploded and the cutlass struck it and knocked it against the other side of the tent. The bullet passed over Robinson's head.
Mary Spencer insisted that she was accustomed to go to church and to repeat the sermon to her parents, and that she was not afraid of death, for she hoped it would make an entrance for her into heaven. Margaret Johnson was persuaded that a man and his wife who were in the gaol on Robinson's charges were not witches, because the man "daily prays and reads and seems a godly man."
Botha hoped to lure Buller on and was prepared even to allow him to cross the river; and having crushed him to act upon the British flanks, an operation which the wide extension of Botha's front from Hlangwhane to Robinson's farm, a distance of seven miles, gave him a good chance of being able to carry out.
He opposed the River and Harbor bill and voted to sustain the President's veto. The political campaign of 1883, which resulted in Mr. Robinson's election as Governor, was an interesting and somewhat exciting one.
"I suppose they had to try him, as he was the senior wing three-quarter of the second, but he's no earthly good." "He only got into the second because he's big," was Robinson's opinion. "A man who's big and strong can always get his second colours." "Even if he's a funk, like Rand-Brown," said Clephane. He simply didn't attempt to tackle him.
We had just time, however, to reach the bank and to get out of her when she went down. It was at this particular spot that the natives sustained so severe a loss when Pulcanti was taken. They got between two fires, that of Mr. Robinson's party of overlanders, with whom they had been fighting for three days; and a party of police who, providentially for Mr.
His dislike of the woman was intense, and yet he knew no one else and the baby needed instant care. Besides, he began to see the ludicrousness of his making a first call on his neighbors with a foundling to dispose of. She saw his hesitation, and said, "Ye don't know me, in course. Well, I'm Bessy Robinson, Trinidad Joe Robinson's daughter.
She could not say she did not approve of Sarah, for there was not a more upright, self-respecting girl in the village. But Sarah, because of her father's miserliness, often went out for extra work when the neighbors needed help, and this was the real cause of Mrs. Robinson's feeling.
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